KING FERDINAND'S "NERVES."
The of Bulgaria, according to Balkan advices, has an exaggerated fear' of aeroplanes. When he learned that English and French airmen wero cooperating with the Seibian Army, he became very anxious, and was reduced to a state of terror on hearing that aircraft had been landed at Salonika. He immediately summoned a Ministerial Council, and, declaring that it was necessaiy to protcct Sofia from hos, tilo raids, ordered all the Bulgarian airmen to bo recalled from the front. A bomb-proof roof was erected over the royal palaco, and'at night searchlights swept the sky ceaselessly. The trembling monaroh'even asked tho Kaiser to send a Zeppelin,i and dispatch-, ed fevorish telegrams to hasten it<s voyage. When it arrived at .Sofia, Kinn Ferdinand conferred' decorations on nil its officers. Tho Zeppelin commander asked the • sovereign when he was to leave for the front. "I don't know," was the reply. '-'You had better pass the winter at Sofia." From that day the airship has not , gone beyond the outskirts of the capital.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2714, 8 March 1916, Page 6
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171KING FERDINAND'S "NERVES." Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2714, 8 March 1916, Page 6
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